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—254 ST. MARK.Sect. V. The Miracles after Chrises Death.The Centurion. The holy Women." 38. And the vail of the temple was rent in twainfrom the top to the bottom.''Behold all the mysteries which are just going tobe discovered. The vail of the true sanctuary willnow immediately be opened to men, by the rendingof the vail of Christ's flesh. The death of the truevictim puts an end to the figurative sacrifices, and toall the carnal righteousness of the Jewish temple.The whole earth is about to become the temple ofGod by the sacrifice of charity, in which alone thetrue righteousness consists, and by the sacrifice ofthe eucharist, which will every where renew thememory of that which is just now accomplished onmount Calvary, and will publish this truth in allplaces, that Christ died for the salvation of the wholeworld." 39. f And when the centurion, which stoodover against him, saw that he so cried out, and gaveup the ghost, he said. Truly this man was the Sonof God."A powerful and miraculous cry this! It opens theeyes and the heart of the centurion, because for himitis accompanied with the internal cry of grace whichis represented by it. There is a loud cry at thedeath of Christ ;there was the same at the resurrectionof Lazarus :to show, that our blessed Saviour'sdeath was to merit for us the grace to rise to thetrue life. The faith and confession of the centurionare the first-fruits of the faith of the Gentiles, and aprophetic sign of their being preferred before the